The guidance approach is based on the belief that every child has the capacity for both good and evil. The role of the educator is not to punish the child to keep him away from wrongdoing. Instead, the educator has to guide the child in such a way that he is capable of making good decisions using his innate intelligence.
If you give students an encouraging classroom environment that recognizes their capabilities, it helps them develop their inner discipline, so that ideally you won’t need to discipline them. With the guidance approach, you can help a child develop his personal strength to make good decisions. This aids children's personal development as they make decisions and learn.
As you trust children to be more responsible for their own actions, you convey your trust in them. This helps the children develop a sense of their own worth as they grow in self-respect. As they enjoy their freedom, with the reduction of teacher control, they also learn to develop a sense of discipline from within.
Children in a classroom setting come from different cultural and family backgrounds. They also have different temperaments and personal characteristics. A guidance approach involves accepting all these differences and being respectful of each child. In a culturally diverse setting, a teacher may run into situations where a parent’s approach to dealing with a child is different from what the guidance approach suggests. Learn to be accepting of such differences so that the child doesn’t feel that there is something wrong with his parents’ approach. Accept the parents’ viewpoint and work with them to sort out the issue.